European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 b the stars and stripes thursday Friday july 4/5, 1991 at a glance a group of bikers crests a Hill near Gairloch Scotland one of countless Beautiful places to Bike it in Europe. Sec stripes Magazine. T not taught to work half of americans teen agers May have trouble entering the work Force because their schools have not taught them Job related skills a Bush administration panel says. A Page 4 end of 29-Bent stamp the postal service once again is asking for a 30-cent stamp. A Page 5 made in Japan fourth a japanese owned business is helping foot the Bill for historic a and financially strapped a Plymouth mass., to have a fourth of july Celebration. A Page 6 Tough Job Market Junior officers searching for jobs in corporate America should be prepared for fewer offers of employment than at any time in the past three years some recruiters say. A Page 19 Index Ann Landers comics. Commentary letters. Money matters sports. To listings a weather. 9 14-1813 .12 .19 20-24 .20 .11 . Envoy says nato must be Europe s leading defense body Brussels Belgium apr the . Ambassador to the european Community said wednesday that nato must remain Europe a prime defense body. Thomas Niles also pledged Washington will not interfere in dec efforts to set up a defense . A a it a not for the United states to Tell its allies not to do things or to do things a Niles told a european Security conference at the european parliament the dec Assembly. But he said the United states wants any european defense organization to be part of the North Atlantic Alliance. A we do not believe it would be useful a either from your Side or from ours a to create parallel competing structures to those that exist in nato a he said. He suggested the dec nations coordinate defense policies in a purely european institution and leave broader defense planning to the nato Alliance. The United states worries a european Community defense body will undermine the nato Alliance that binds Europe with the United states and Canada. The 12 dec countries Are debating whether to give the Community a formal defense role As part of a bid to transform the Trade bloc into a political and economic Union in the late 1990s. Dec countries a All nato members except Neutral Ireland a Are divided on How to forge such a european defense France prefers to do so within the dec. Britain and the Netherlands Lead a drive to bolster the european contribution with in the Atlantic Alliance. 1 Niles said the end of the cold War has not eliminated the need for close defense cooperation within nato which he called a one of the most successful collective defense organizations in Ahe said nato was still needed to balance soviet military Power and provide insurance against future risks. He denied Washington was meddling in dec deliberations to preserve . Influence Over european defense. A the United states is not seeking to direct your activities in any particular Channel a he said. A we Are prepared to support whatever our european allies decide is tuesday dec commission president Jacques Delors speaking at the same conference warned the United states not to a a interfere in the dec defense debate. Niles said the United states has been a leading advocate of close european cooperation for the last 45 years and was pleased to see european interest in a greater defense contribution. . Observers watch iraqis bulldoze 12 ballistic missiles Baghdad Iraq a iraqi soldiers supervised by . Inspectors bulldozed 12 of iraqis ballistic missiles into scrap Metal tuesday . Officials said. They were the first destroyed under the persian Gulf War cease fire terms. The teams Leader . Army col. Douglas Englund said All 61 of the missiles that Iraq says survived the War would be demolished by weeks end. Englund said he had no reason to believe reports that Iraq was hiding an additional 100 to 700 missiles despite . Allegations that Iraq has cheated in accounting for its nuclear production Sites. A if we Ever see missile number 62, then wed have a Prima Facie Case to go and do something about it a Englund told the associated press. He said 51 of the missiles targeted for destruction Are a1 Hussein longer Range versions of the soviet designed scud. Only one is a scud a Type of missile that Iraq launched at saudi Arabia and Israel during the War. The remaining nine Are a1 fahd surface to air missiles. The missiles Are being destroyed on a Concrete pad at the a1 Taji launch base 18 Miles North of Baghdad. The 21-Man . Team which includes four americans and three soviets also expects by sunday to smash 10 Mobile launchers two fixed launchers nine liquid fuel transporters and eight missile transport vehicles Englund said. Under the april 3 . Cease fire Resolution Iraq is obligated to destroy All its weapons of mass destruction. Englund has supervised the elimination of soviet ballistic missiles under the inter mediate Range nuclear forces treaty that banned ground based nuclear missiles. The missile team is scheduled to leave sunday. Toward the end of the month another team headed by Englund will travel to Western Iraq to inspect iraqis 34 fixed launch Sites and eight supporting factories he said. Haig attacker gets 6v2 years in prison Bonn Germany up a a former member of the left Wing extremist red army faction was sentenced to 6vi Yearsin prison wednesday for multiple acts of terrorism including an attack on former Gen. Alexander Haig when he was nato commander in 1979. Henning Beer 32, was charged with attempted murder in 30 cases including attacks on Haig and on the former commander of Usa eur Gen. Frederick Kroesen in 1981. Beer was also accused of participating in a 1979 Bank robbery and a subsequent shoot out with police in Zurich Switzerland that killed one person and wounded several others. The judge said the court sentenced Beer to a relatively mild 6v2 years because he had cooperated with the court. Beer was one of 10 former Raf members who reportedly left the left Wing Radical group in the Early 1980s and fled to former East Germany where they were discovered about six months after the Berlin Wall fell on nov. 9,1989. Beer testified that he took part in the 1979 bomb attack on Haig his assistant chauffeur and bodyguards while Haig was in route to work at nato Headquarters in Belgium. The three Security guards were slightly injured during the attack. Beer also said he participated in a similar bomb attack in Kroesen in 1981. Kroesen and his wife were slightly Hurt. He was also involved in a bomb attack at Ramstein a in Germany in 1981, which seriously injured 17 people. Galileo probe sets course for asteroid Pasadena Calif. A the Galileo spacecraft fired its thrusters tuesday to set course for its unprecedented flight past an asteroid. The All Day Man Euver consisted of 946 firings of two of Galileo a thrusters said William of Neil project manager at the National aeronautics and space administrations Jet propulsion Laboratory. The a turn Burn turn Man Euver was designed to slow Galileo by 8 Mph and change its course so that on oct. 29 it will zoom past asteroid Gaspar about 1,000 Miles away from it in the first asteroid flyby by any spaceship of Neil said. Two More trajectory correction Maneu vers Are scheduled in october to Fine tune Galileo a path to Gaspar an 11-mile-Long Rocky leftover from the solar systems formation. Correction the list in wednesdays newspaper of military units leaving Germany included one error and one omission. The 533rd military intelligence in at Michael Barracks in Frankfurt Germany was incorrectly identified and the 1st in 1st air defense at Span Dahlem a was Campus plans open House saturday Munich Germany a the University of Maryland Munich Campus will open its doors to prospective students and their parents from 9 30 . To 1 30 . Saturday. The open House is an Opportunity for students to see Campus facilities and speak with students faculty and members of the administration. Staff members from the admissions office and the financial Aid office also will be available. Another item on the Agenda is a discussion of the schools move to Augsburg next year when the Munich Community closes Down. The school will leave its Mcgraw Cavern location in May 1992. The Campus will open its door in Augsburg in August 1992. Reservations can be made for saturday or More information obtained by calling ets 440-6535 or Munich civilian 089690-0093
